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This artist’s illustration represents the couple of planetary-mass brown dwarfs Ophiuchus 98. As they are very young, they are still evolving in the molecular clouds that saw their birth.

Astronomy

Astronomers find two failed stars wandering the universe together

December 17, 2020

Astrophysics

Historic neutrino detection shines new light on the sun

November 26, 2020 - Updated on December 2, 2020

Astronomy

Ancient Kraken hiding inside the Milky Way gets revealed by artificial intelligence

November 16, 2020

Mars then and Now. The Red Planet has been stripped of water for billions of years, but the main mechanism of water loss is different now than it was a billion years ago (NASA)

Alien life

Water stripped from Mars’ upper atmosphere may explain how it became a barren Red Planet

November 12, 2020

An artist's conception of HD 209458 b, an exoplanet whose atmosphere is being torn off at more than 35,000 km/hour by the radiation of its close-by parent star. This hot Jupiter was the first alien world discovered via the transit method, and the first planet to have its atmosphere studied. [NASA/European Space Agency/Alfred Vidal-Madjar (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS)]

Alien life

Stellar flares can strip away the atmosphere of planets, make them less habitable

November 9, 2020

An artist's impression of a gravitational microlensing event by a free-floating planet. (Jan Skowron / Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw)

Astronomy

‘Lonely’ Rogue Planet Discovered Wandering the Milky Way

November 3, 2020

Astronomy

Water Found on the Moon’s Sunlit Surface

October 26, 2020

With the help of ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have found six galaxies lying around a supermassive black hole, the first time such a close grouping has been seen within the first billion years of the Universe. This artist’s impression shows the central black hole and the galaxies trapped in its gas web. The black hole, which together with the disc around it is known as quasar SDSS J103027.09+052455.0, shines brightly as it engulfs matter around it. (ESO/L. Calçada)

Astronomy

‘Cosmic Web’ of a Supermassive Black Hole Ensnares Six Galaxies

October 1, 2020 - Updated on August 31, 2023

Astronomy

This could be the first extragalactic planet we’ve ever found

September 30, 2020

Astrophysics

How much matter is there in the universe? Now we (kind of) know

September 29, 2020 - Updated on May 6, 2021

Gallery of stellar winds around cool ageing stars, showing a variety of morphologies, including disks, cones, and spirals. The blue colour represents material that is coming towards you, red is material that is moving away from you. (L. Decin, ESO/ALMA)

Astronomy

How Stellar Winds of Dying Stars Are Shaped

September 17, 2020 - Updated on July 25, 2023

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the massive galaxy cluster MACSJ 1206. Embedded within the cluster are the distorted images of distant background galaxies, seen as arcs and smeared features. These distortions are caused by the dark matter in the cluster, whose gravity bends and magnifies the light from faraway galaxies, an effect called gravitational lensing. This phenomenon allows astronomers to study remote galaxies that would otherwise be too faint to see. (NASA, ESA, G. Caminha (University of Groningen), M. Meneghetti (Observatory of Astrophysics and Space Science of Bologna), P. Natarajan (Yale University), the CLASH team, and M. Kornmesser (ESA/Hubble))

Astronomy

Astronomers Investigate Dark Matter’s Missing Ingredient

September 11, 2020 - Updated on May 6, 2021

GW Orionis, a triple star system with a peculiar inner region. Unlike the flat planet-forming discs we see around many stars, GW Orionis features a warped disc, deformed by the movements of the three stars at its centre. This composite image shows both the ALMA and SPHERE observations of the disc. (ESO/Exeter/Kraus et al., ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO))

Astronomy

Warped gas disc torn apart by three stars directly observed for the first time

September 3, 2020 - Updated on July 28, 2023

Artist’s impression of binary black holes about to collide. Image credit: Mark Myers, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav).

Astronomy

Gravitational waves reveal largest black hole merger and the first intermediate-mass black hole

September 2, 2020 - Updated on May 28, 2021

Astronomy

Comet NEOWISE Comes into Focus for a Close-up

August 26, 2020

This artist's conception illustrates a Jupiter-like planet alone in the dark of space, floating freely without a parent star. (NASA)

Astronomy

Rogue Planets Could Outnumber Stars in the Milky Way

August 24, 2020

Using ALMA astronomers have revealed an extremely distant galaxy that looks surprisingly like our Milky Way. The galaxy, SPT0418-47, is gravitationally lensed by a nearby galaxy, appearing in the sky as a near-perfect ring of light. (ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Rizzo et al.)

Astronomy

Distant ‘Milky Way Look-Alike’ Challenges Theories of Galaxy Formation

August 12, 2020

Astronomy

Dwarf planet Ceres is an ocean world with liquid water beneath the surface

August 11, 2020

Do Black Holes Merge? (NASA/Public Domain)

Astronomy

Double Trouble! Hunting for Supermassive Black Hole Mergers

July 27, 2020 - Updated on July 25, 2023

Astronomy

Jovian planets — the giants of solar systems

July 17, 2020 - Updated on May 6, 2023

Recent discoveries have challenged ideas about how galaxies form, including how early in the Universe's history they developed.

Astrophysics

What’s My Age Again? New Discoveries May Spark a Rethink of Galaxy Formation

CSIRO’s ASKAP telescope continues to detect new FRBs, adding to the catalogue of these mysterious objects. Credit: ICRAR and CSIRO/Alex Cherney

Astronomy

The Universe’s Missing Matter Problem is Solved

Arrokoth--or as it was previously known Ultima Thule--may reveal secrets about the formation of the solar system (NASA, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY, SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE, ROMAN TKACHENKO)

Astronomy

Arrokoth, the ‘Space Snowman’, sheds new light on how the solar system formed

February 13, 2020

Artist’s conception of a dwarf galaxy, its shape distorted, most likely by a past interaction with another galaxy, and a massive black hole in its outskirts (pullout). The black hole is drawing in material that forms a rotating accretion disc and generates jets of material propelled outward. Image credit: Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF

Astronomy

Astrophysicists find more evidence of ‘wandering’ black holes

January 22, 2020

Astrophysics

How Enceladus got its stripes

December 9, 2019

An artist's impression of the CHEOPS telescope--the ESA's first S-Class project which will search for suitable exoplanets for future investigations (ESA)

Alien life

Exoplanet telescope CHEOPS gears up for launch day

December 5, 2019

The rapidly spinning neutron star embedded in the center of the Crab nebula is the dynamo powering the nebula's eerie interior bluish glow. The blue light comes from electrons whirling at nearly the speed of light around magnetic field lines from the neutron star. The neutron star, the crushed ultra-dense core of the exploded star, like a lighthouse, ejects twin beams of radiation that appear to pulse 30 times a second.

Astronomy

How Black Holes and Neutron Stars Shine

November 28, 2019

An artist’s impression of S5-HVS1’s ejection by Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the centre of the galaxy. The black hole and the captured binary partner to S5-HVS1 are seen far away in the left corner of the picture, while S5-HVS1 is in the foreground, speeding away from them. ( James Josephides (Swinburne Astronomy Productions))

Astronomy

Runaway star ejected from the centre of the Milky Way at incredible speed

November 15, 2019 - Updated on November 19, 2019

An artist's conception showing spherical carbon molecules known as buckyballs coming out from a planetary nebula -- material shed by a dying star. Researchers at the University of Arizona have now created these molecules under laboratory conditions thought to mimic those in their 'natural' habitat in space. NASA/JPL-Caltech

Astrophysics

Buckyballs in space: how complex carbon molecules form in space

November 15, 2019

NGC1569 is a star-forming galaxy. Galaxies such as this could see their star formation rates affected by strong winds emanating from a central black hole. (HST/NASA/ESA)

Astronomy

Black Holes could stunt the growth of dwarf galaxies

October 14, 2019

Astronomy

Nobel Physics Prize goes to cosmology and exoplanet pioneers

October 8, 2019

Astrophysics

NASA releases beautiful new animation of a black hole

September 26, 2019 - Updated on August 31, 2023

Artist's composition of a volcanic exo-Io undergoing extreme mass loss. The hidden exomoon is enshrouded in an irradiated gas cloud shining in bright orange-yellow, as would be seen with a sodium filter. Patches of sodium clouds are seen to trail the lunar orbit, possibly driven by the gas giant's magnetosphere. (© University of Bern, Illustration: Thibaut Roger)

Astronomy

Astronomers find clues of a volcanically active exomoon

August 30, 2019

Astrophysics

We know something more about dark energy: it isn’t a fundamental force

August 28, 2019

Illustration by Wendy Kenigsberg/Matt Fondeur/Cornell University

Alien life

Biofluorescence shining light on the search for alien life

August 14, 2019

Astronomy

How TRAPPIST-1 could unveil its secrets to James Webb Telescope

August 14, 2019

Birthplace of giant planets: Monash astrophysicists discover a baby planet sculpting a disc of gas and dust. Credit: ESO/ALMA.

Astronomy

‘Baby’ planet two to three times the size of Jupiter discovered

August 13, 2019

A UA-led team of scientists generated millions of different universes on a supercomputer, each of which obeyed different physical theories for how galaxies should form. (Image: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz and the HFF Team/STScI)

Astronomy

Researchers simulate millions of virtual universes to study star formation

August 12, 2019

Ancient galaxies from the study are visible to ALMA (right) but not to Hubble (left). Credit: © 2019 Wang et al.

Astronomy

‘Hidden’ ancient galaxies discovery may redefine our understanding of the Universe

Astrophysics

Millions of black holes are lurking in the Milky Way. Here’s how to spot them

An artist visualization of the star S0–2 as it passes by the supermassive black hole at the Galactic centre. As the star gets closer to the supermassive black hole, light it emits experiences a gravitational redshift that is predicted by Einstein's General Relativity. By observing this redshift, we can test Einstein's theory of gravity (Nicole R. Fuller, National Science Foundation)

Astronomy

Einstein’s General Relativity passes the test at the centre of our Galaxy

The local void - a vast cosmic structure surrounding our Milky Way galaxy - been mapped in extraordinary detail in a new study, suggest the reason our galaxy doesn't travel with the expansion of the universe.

Astronomy

Astronomers map the Local Void – the huge “nothingness” surrounding the Milky Way

July 23, 2019 - Updated on July 24, 2019

This deep-field view of the sky (center) taken by NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes is dominated by galaxies - including some very faint, very distant ones - circled in red. The bottom right inset shows the light collected from one of those galaxies during a long-duration observation.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/Spitzer/P. Oesch/S. De Barros/I.Labbe

Astronomy

Bright galaxies help solve mystery about early universe

View of the universe by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA.

Astronomy

The universe is expanding faster than current physics predicts

Neptune.

Astrophysics

Hubble captured the first evidence of a Great Dark Spot storm forming on Neptune

Jupiter.

Astrophysics

Jupiter formed far from the sun and traveled closer during its early days

Artistic depiction of quasars. Image credits: NASA / JPL.

Astronomy

Scientists discover 83 Quasars from the early universe

Astrophysics

NASA captures images of supersonic shockwaves in mid-air — and the results are stunning

The universe is a weird place and it just got a bit weirder. Image credits: NASA / Hubble.

Astronomy

Quasar measurements suggest the universe is expanding faster than we thought

January 30, 2019

Sagittarius A*

Astrophysics

Researchers find black hole that spins almost as fast as (we think) they can spin

January 16, 2019

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